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March 29, 2007

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Already racing around the Internet is the cringe-inducing video of Karl Rove "dancing" to a "rap" song at last night's Radio and Television Correspondents' Dinner.

But even better than Rove's routine was his bit before they cued the music.

The YouTube clip is below. Check out what Rove says when he's asked who he is. He first says "Peter Fitzgerald" and then corrects himself, saying "Patrick Fitzgerald."

The irony -- intended or not -- is that former one-term Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R-Ill.) is the man responsible for Patrick Fitzgerald's appointment as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. The senator wanted a prosecutor who was not from the state and not mired in Cook County politics, and he wound up getting a bulldog who would later give his party and his president many headaches.

So did Rove really flub the line or was he tweaking the man responsible for elevating Patrick Fitzgerald to power?